It is no secret that the investment banking interview process is incredibly competitive. What may be surprising is that there is actually a well-defined sequence of steps one can take to dramatically improve chances of receiving an offer. In this article we provide an overview of the process, as well as the most common...

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Great article by Jonathan Marino addressing changes in the compensation for Wall Street's "middle class." While analyst and associate pay is rising via higher base and bonus, mid-level bankers like VPs and Executive Directors are experiencing more of a mixed bag. A larger portion of their compensation comes from deferred compensation, and the ranks are being...

A recent SeekingAlpha blog post questioned Amazon management's definition of free cash flows (FCF) and criticized its application in DCF valuation. The author's thesis is that Amazon stock is overvalued because the definition of FCF that management uses - and that presumably is used by stock analysts to arrive at a valuation for Amazon via a DCF...

Starting in 2014, private companies can elect to amortize goodwill on a straight-line basis over 10 years. This is an election (not a requirement), and enables private companies to forgo the costly annual impairment tests that are required of public companies (although they will continue to be required to run an impairment test if a "triggering event" occurs)....

Below is a link to a great article addressing some of the major reasons that traditional valuation isn't driving early-stage valuation. In our cap tables course we spend a great deal of time talking about how to build the various provisions discussed in this article into the waterfall analysis that identifies returns to the...

Last week I had a chance to sit down with my friend Jared Millman for his new podcast series Dissecting Success. We spent about an hour talking about how I made the decision to leave JP Morgan and start Wall street Prep. Here's the blurb and link to the podcast - enjoy! Matan Feldman tells us how...

FINRA fined 10 large investment banks $43.5m for "failing to shield analysts from pressure to promote stocks," specifically claiming that the "investment banks promised favorable research to Toys “R” Us Inc. and its private-equity owners in 2010 to win roles in its initial public offering." Read full article here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-11/finra-fines-10-wall-street-firms-over-analysts-ipo-pitches.html

If you are curious about exit options after investment banking, Dealbook has given us some numbers for 2014. 36% of junior investment bankers who started two-year jobs in 2012 have now joined private equity firms, while only 27.5% stayed in the same group at their bank. Read the full post here.

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